Hi Ned, On 2008-03-28 14:55, Ned Freed wrote:
>> > For "domain", "host" and "remote-host", since sieve strings are UTF-8, >> > are these items expressed in UTF-8 or in ACE encoding? > > ACE encoding, of course. Nor do I believe this is worth calling out in this > context. Domains and hosts appear in Sieve in many places besides this; if > this > is indeed an issue (and I'm convinced it is not) the place to address it is > in > the Sieve base specification. As long as you're sure that implementers will not be left in doubt... > > More generally, AFAIK the relationship between IDN and email has never been > completely nailed down - this is a part of more general problem EAI is looking > at. I suppose you could argue that since these particular values are > environmental rather than message-related they might come under some other set > of rules, but they are still part of email as a service so I don't think that > flies. > > Now, it would be interesting and useful to have a Sieve extension to decode > ACE > encodings for domains. Or perhaps the right way to do it is with a special > sort > of comparator. But we're going to need a bunch of stuff in Sieve to accomodate > all aspects of EAI. Maybe we should wait to see how that shakes out. Indeed, that makes sense. > >> > "remote-host" >> > => Host name of remote SMTP client, if applicable and >> > available. > >> > It would be cleaner if this was explicitly stated to be the FQDN. > > Seems reasonable. I'll change it. Ack > >> > "remote-ip" >> > => IP address of remote SMTP client, if applicable and >> > available. > >> > I think the representation should be defined. I assume it will >> > be dotted-decimal for IPv4, but for IPv6 will it be the format >> > defined for URIs (RFC 3986) or that defined for SMTP (RFC 2821)? > > Yes, good point. This has already been brought up and discussed on the Sieve > list. I can't say I'm completely delighted with the alternatives, but the > latter seemed like the most reasonable choice so we went with it. In this email-related context, I agree. Brian _______________________________________________ Gen-art mailing list [email protected] https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/gen-art
